
December 3, 1952 · 73 years old
Kim Myung-Gon (김명곤) is a South Korean actor, screenwriter, and music director.

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

A coup in North Korea forces an agent to defect to South with unconscious "Number One". While operatives from North hunt for both of them, the agent has to work with South Koreans to stop the nuclear war.

A governor's son falls in love and marries a beautiful girl, the daughter of a courtesan. Their marriage is kept a secret from the governor who would immediately disown him if he found that his son married beneath him.

Right before a trilateral summit involving the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula, the leaders of the three nations are abducted by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup, escalating the crisis and tension to the brink of war.

Despite its falling popularity, a father teaches his two children the Korean musical tradition of Pansori (one singer accompanied by one drummer).

A crown prince emerges as a leader during the war between Korea and Japan in 1592.

The politician Koo Myung-hui finds his wife in the garage. She is cleaning her son's bloodstained car, which has just run over a person.

Based on the great river story, (Taebaegsanmaek) The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

This is a film which ridicules the weaknesses of South Korean society.